Recently I had the opportunity to get a Value Tour at Whole Foods Market. They gave me a gift card, and challenged me to see if I could prepare a one week meal plan for around a $100…. for a family of four, no less!! Impossible? Man, I was so ready for this challenge! So much so, that I took it a step further, and challenged myself to see if I could do an ORGANIC meal plan for $100.
And you know what? I did it! I was able to plan organic and healthy breakfasts, lunches AND dinners for $111.35 total at Whole Foods Market. You can go back and see how I did it on my Whole Foods Organic Meal Plan post.
But back to the business of the really cool, fun stuff: Whole Foods Market has graciously offered to give away a $100 gift card to one of my readers in hopes that you can do the same thing that I did!! How awesome is that? Yeah, I know…totally awesome. So, let’s get on with it and do a giveaway.
Question: What is your favorite item to get at Whole Foods Market? …can you pick just one? ;)
Directions: Use the Raffelcopter box below, and follow the directions to enter the giveaway.
UPDATE: Congrats to winner Marcia G. Marcia has been notified via email. Thanks everyone for entering, and keep saving at Whole Foods Market!
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We love the Gluten-Free Bakehouse bread–and we appreciate the gluten-free section where we can shop for all our gluten-free shelf items in one place!
My daughter loves the mac and cheese, I love the vegetarian soups!
I love their wild mushroom pizza – it is fantastic!!
We enjoy their meat and fancy cheese selection!
My favorite item(s) to buy at whole foods are anything ORGANIC! Fresh produce, seafood, meats, snacks, etc. I love the bulk section too, I can save a lot of money in that section. I have a family of 5, myself, my husband, my 7 year old son, 3 year old daughter and 15 month old daughter. My husband’s best friend was diagnosed last year at the young age of 31 with Stage IV colon cancer. He is a husband, father of 2 little children, son and friend to many. When we learned of his diagnosis we knew we had to change the way we were eating to organic. We gave up all processed foods and only shop at Trader Joes and Whole Foods. We learned that the most important items to buy organic are fruits, veggies, meat and dairy. Our home is now 95% organic. One of my biggest peeves is the people who say they “can’t afford organic”. Little do they know it CAN be done! I used to go to Big Y, etc and spend $140-150 a week on WHAT? I couldn’t tell you what I would buy! Now I do more meal planning and a lot more food prep and I am actually saving money! Thank you for putting together such an awesome blog, I am a daily visitor
My favorite thing to buy is any gluten free snacks or treats I can find for my husband.
I would love to try some of the produce
I love the Organic fresh produce and meats.
We recently got a Whole Foods. I have enjoyed the local produce I bought from there.
the fruit
I love all the dairy substitutes! makes cooking and baking so easy when your trying to stay Vegan.
Would love to try the organic produce.
Great giveaway, i love organic and whole food
A brand new Whole Foods just opened right next to my husband’s office. Our favorite thing so far is the bulk foods (and produce).
Ahh, Whole Foods. We love their maple-cured thick slab bacon as a special treat, Siggis yogurt, WF brand sourdough bread, and Nordic Natural Omega-3 Fish Oil capsules for nursing mamas. Love that store!!
At Whole Foods I love all the organic produce that I can’t find anywhere else!
i cant pick just one thing my daughter is allergic to msg i am often seasrching for foods without it.
We love the bulk foods section…one of the only places I can get nutritional year!
Anything out of the deli, or the bakery or off the salad bar….
How can I possibly choose just one?! I love the prepared food section Kung Pao tofu, soup bar, 365 dairy food products, assortment of fresh produce, and oh don’t get me started about all their great skin/beauty lines…mmm, Jason’s apricot lotion! Love shopping at Whole Foods, they are also a fair/caring company (worked there for 1 yr after college) and they practice what they preach!
I like buying organic chicken and tofu at Whole Foods. They have great sales on these two items!
Any fresh produce is great to get at Whole Foods. I also love going through the bulk section – so many wonderful things to try!
Whole Foods is the only place I buy organic almond milk. I usually pick up some sushi for my husband, and check the organic cereal prices too. Love the samples!!
I really like their 365 products.
Vegetarian meatballs! Spicy and regular! Sooooo good!!
I love their Salad bar…. but especially their daily made sushi! Living in North Carolina good sushi is hard to find
I like their organic produce selection.
To be honest I have never been to a Whole Foods Market, although I do know there is one in our town. So I don’t have a favorite product yet but I’ve heard that they have wonderful organic fruit and since my kids are big on fruit that would be a great thing to be able to get them!
Love their Organic produce and meats – nitrite free!
I love the bulk section (that counts as one item right
)….if i had to pick….the coconut!
i love the hot food bar for a quick lunch.
I love their yogurt selection!!!
I love their produce!
My favorite item at Whole Foods is their fresh made guacamole, too good!
I love their fresh seafood – Especially Salmon!
The produce, definitely!
hot food bar!!!
I love their candy, tea, international foods, and their natural remedies for my allergy-ridden daughter…although I can’t get enough of their freshly ground peanut butter and fresh fruit!!
Love the wheat berry salad at the salad bar with the pecans and cranberries…Y U M
I love their meat department. They have everything I could ever want and so fresh!!
I think the world is a better place when it’s bacon flavored, bacon scented, baconized…..but, pork bacon, not so good for the body. So, we LOVE their free-range, organic, nitrate-free turkey bacon. It makes me a happy woman.
This is a great giveaway. My husband and I have been trying to buy more of our groceries at whole foods lately while staying with in our tight budget. I love their bulk items and their meat/poultry. We can tell a huge difference in the taste an quality of what we are getting.
I love all of the fresh organic produce!!
I always buy bulk pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds when I go to Whole Foods!
Their fresh shrimp. Two times a week they have fresh NC shrimp.
Don’t think there is anything at WF that isn’t a favorite. Love their fruit and bakery items
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I love to buy raw coconut oil, kelp granules and grass fed meat.
I love to stock up on Just Peas (freeze dried peas) for healthy, crunchy snacking.
I love the fresh peanut butter that you can make in their machines.
I like 365 products
I love their 365 Everyday Lavender soap. It smells divine and lasts forever.
I love their 365 products!
Lunch from their salad bar…yummy
Love the fresh deli bar with nice salads and entrees
You know I’ve never shopped at whole foods but after your post I know I’m going to have to start. I buy baby carrots all the time so for a few cents more I could get organic I would. Thanks for the post, can’t wait to shop there.
I love their freshly baked pizzas
The grass fed beef!!
Produce for sure!
Salad bar!
We just got a new Whole Foods very close to my house! I would love to go and buy some organic produce!
kosher marshmallows
Their prepared foods! Always something yummy to eat right away!
Organic cereal
bulk items
I love getting my vitamins there.
The Whole Foods in Cranston RI will make my sushi on brown rice with GF tamari…yummy!!
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I love their 365 brand of cheese.
Fruits!!
Red Peppers! Or that is at least what my 3 year old would choose!
I love their salad Bar!
I just moved to an area without a Whole Foods so I have to stock up when I’m back in Boston. Some of the things on my list are their Dead Sea mineral soaps, organic rooibos tea, and the Herbes de Provence vinaigrette salad dressing.
I LOVE their Mocha Java coffee available at the coffee bar. I look forward to shopping there with a warm and oh so yummy cup o joe in my hand!
I LOVE their grilled tofu.
Definitely Produce~
We buy the Soy Dream or Almond Dream “Ice Cream Bites” for one of Our Children due to allergies. She Loves them!
The nitrate free meats
Organic apples for my kids lunches!!! Always a beautiful seletion!!!
I love the hot food bar and always look out for their Indian dishes!
I like goodbelly juice and their deil
I love the awesome free kids snacks they give out. Sure beats my kids getting sugar cookies, like some other stores do!
I love the bins with the dry goods like flour, rice, quinoa.
Love buying dry goods in bulk!
i like there cheese counter
I love the Whole Foods store brand olive oil.
I love the hot food bar!
All the fresh fruits and vegetables!
I have actually never shopped at whole foods. But I would love the opportunity to purchase some free range chicken, or something like that.
Whole Foods is our favorite one stop shop for our lactose and gluten free products. Would love to win this great prize.
I have never been there, but would love to try it!
This would be fabulous! I love hooking up the deals at Whole Foods thanks to your blog.
We love the fruit.
I love there Produce
Cheese!! I am a cheese-aholic and they have the best selection around
Three Wishes wine
I buy all of my meat at Whole Foods. They have a rating that shows how humanely the animals were treated and that’s important to me.
Anything that I can get for FREE!!! I have gotten bottled tea for free and really cheap soup and stock, chips and even flour, using coupons. YEAH!! Would love to win.
Kombucha:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/local-producer-buchi-kombucha
We like the hot bar – they make an awesome brisket! ^_^
I love their pizzas!
I love the organic veggies for my family and me YUM!
I love their 365 products, especially their low sodium popcorn:)
let’s see, I love the bulk items (dried figs especially), raw foods section, the soup bar… I could go on and on!!!
I love their deli section, if you can even call it that! All the fresh ready to eat items are delish!!
So hard to pick just one! My kids need to be gluten and dairy free so I live at this store! I do love the bulk section.
My family really enjoys their salsa they make in-house.
I like the fresh organic produce.
We love the poulet rouge chicken. Yum!
I love the nitrate-free peppered bacon!
their fruit
I love their bulk items.
My family loves their hot bar and juice bar. I’m gluten free so finding a good place to eat is sometimes hard. But I know I can always find something at Whole Foods.
I love the vegan carrot cake from Cafe Indigo.
they have wide variety of organic produce
We really love the Atlantic Ocean shrimp that is so sweet.
i love the 356 organic sunflower seeds. I use them in my vitamix to make homemade hummus. Delicious.
I love the gluten free bakery treats!
The organic vegetables and fruit!
My favorite is their local hummus
I really love to buy the Whole Foods Bread from the bakery. The selection is great and we have enjoyed everything we have gotten there.
I love that they have dairy free items!
I love that they carry a wide range of organic dried beans. I can’t find organic ones anywhere else.
I shop @ TJ’s, so I do not have a particular favorite from WF. I love coconut oil though, so I will say that I love that from WF? It’s sucha versatile product; therefore, it is impossible to not like it!
This is a hard question-I like so many things! I really like buying real fermented kimchi.
I love all things organic.
Fresh fruit of every kind!
365 organic coconut milk!
I love their vitamin section!
Love their breads!
I love that they stock Dr.Praeger’s fish sticks at Whole Foods!
The local produce is great and finding new things to try.
I love their meat department and that the butcher always cuts up my organic whole chicken and gives me the gizzards too, and a whole pound of chicken feet (used to make broth) for about $1!!!
I buy my Purity Farms Ghee from Whole Foods. Can’t live without my ghee!!
I love their bulk food section, especially the farro.
Can’t figure out how to both enter to win and comment!? I love the natural peanut butter you package yourself – it’s the absolute best peanut butter ever!
Love getting the fresh peanut butter from the peanut press machine there!
Their hummus is really good!
I love the variety of local and exotic produce!
I really love their crostini crackers! the plain ones with sea salt, and the rosemary with olive oil are the best
I love their pasta sauce; it tastes so fresh!
LOVE their fresh salmon, oh my!
Love their pnut butter!
I love to get my produce from there!!!
I love their veggie sushi rolls!
365 brand of everything!
I love the local produce and the whole foods 365 line is awesome
I love the Whole Foods gluten-free pie crusts. They make preparing a gluten-free holiday meal easier. Thanks!
I love to get honest tea juice boxes!
Synergy Cosmic Cranberry
I love the coconut butter!
My favorite item is the quinoa salad!
Produce, Produce, Produce!!
I love their premade vegan wraps!
My favorite is their 365 Whipped Cream Cheese but I love so many things at Whole Foods. It’s a treat to shop there!
Love the organic greens!
As a vegetarian I really like their deli selection.
I know this will make me sound like a small child, but I really love the chocolate milk at Whole Foods. Any of them! They’re all delicious.
I love their dairy selection (milk, yogurt, etc)
I love their nut butter selection!
I like their imported cheeses.
Yogurt and Milk.
I love their bulk section!
love their fat free soy cheese
organic red peppers and bulk organic raisins
Mmmm…fizzy flavored kombucha. Yummy. And so good for the tummy.
I love many items at Whole Foods. I guess one of my favorites would be their rotisserie chickens. Compared to other stores, even their competitor (Earth Fare), they are so moist and taste great a couple of days later, when we are still munching on the leftovers!
Oh I dont have a favorite yet, cause I have not been there yet. We recently had a new one built not too far from me, but I have not ventured up there yet. I have heard they have lots of great gluten free items! I cant wait to go and check it out!!!
I love that they carry a medicine for restless legs!!!
I love their 365 black beans in a box….no worries of bpa lining
The selection of dairy-free treats. And cheese.
I’m thoroughly impressed. Well done!
I like their deli and produce.
Can’t have them anymore since I’m gluten-free…but their vegan “crab” cakes!! Just tried Amy’s GF/V Chocolate Cake. It may be my new favorite!
Apples! Especially now that they’re in season…homemade applesauce here we come
I absolutely LOVE the selection of organic produce at Whole Foods!
organic bulk items
Bulk section. I don’t know why but I’ve always been wacky about bulk foods.
I love the Garlic Kale
I really like organic fruit and veggies. Would love to get them free:)
I have never shopped at Whole foods but have wanted to check it out for a long time now!
The salad bar for lunch makes for a great day
I love the 365brand almond milk and mama chia drinks!
Edamame
All 365 organic brand items!!!
I absolutely love the Rosemary Sourdough bread.
I absolutely love their fresh fish selection!
We LOVE the 365 Almond milk, we stock up every time we go.
My favorite is actually tea. Hibiscus-Key Lime Tea, to be exact. Yum!
Oh Mama… that’s asking ALOT… just one???? I will choose So Delicious Coconut Milk SUGAR FREE only because NO other local store caries it in sugar free! But whole food favs… I could make you a list.
We love the meat and veggie sections. Picking one item is just impossible!
There is not a Whole Foods near me, but the couple of times I have been I did enjoy the eatery and the grilled cheese they made. My kids now love Cheddar Bunnies and will not eat Goldfish anymore!
365 spices are awesome, and such great value compared to name brands!
I love the produce section!
Sweetleaf stevia! (:
Garlic and squash–we love it when we happen to know the farmers who grew these!
I love their bakery…anything in there!
Not sure I can pick just one. I love that they carry some of the more “exotic” produce, like I can almost always find baby bok choy. They also carry several raw milk cheeses and lots of choices for a GF diet.
I love their salad bar!
I love the “alternative snack” ideas for my kiddos! And all the fresh fruit and veggies!
All the organic healthy stuff you can get there
I love the Ardens Garden juices the best!!!
I love the selection of non dairy cheese, specifically the pepperjack daiya shreds! YUM. I also love their mini cheesecakes because they are not only pretty inexpensive for the quality but great portion control and low calorie. I’ve recently lost 40 lbs by cutting out processed foods and exercise so those mini treats are great weekend guilt free indulgences.
I have only been able to shop there once, so I don’t have a favorite, but everything I saw looked wonderful!
It’s the apples! They are always fresh and delicious.
Come one let’s be real – I love WF for the good stuff! That that satisfies my sweet tooth, albeit momentarily. My favorite item is Chocolove Dark Chocolate Bar with Almonds and Sea Salt, and since I can’t pick just one the Artichoke Leek Lasagna from the hotbar. It.Is.To.Die.For!!
I love the produce
There is so much great stuff to choose from! Great seafood selection.
Does produce count as one product? Love the unusual items and love to explore them with my children~
My favorite thing to get there is their make your own almond butter!!! It is sooo good and healthy!
My favorite item from Whole Foods is Simply Organic almond extract – better price than anywhere!
Anything and everything
I have never really shopped at Whole Foods, but we have been revamping our diet recently; I would love to check Whole Foods out. We don’t have one in the town I live in, but we do have one about 30 minutes away. I think it would be well worth the drive!
We love the fresh produce and also the snack selections they have for my kids with ingredients that I know.
i don’t normally shop here, but i sure would love to with this gift card!
My favorite thing is their dairy free cheese.
Oh, just one…hmmm. Bunches of fresh organic leaf kale!
Absolute favorite I’d have to say is the organic fig spread – it is amazing on cheddar cheese!
My favorite item at Whole Foods are the Wholly Wholesome pie crusts because the are kosher parve.
I LOVE their Lobster chowder soup!!!
We love their 365 cereals.
love the 365 products
Love the nut selection!!!!
LOVE all of the gluten free selections, especially the cake mixes, cereals, Bob’s Mill baking mixes. Gluten free for sure!!!
The bread
The fresh daily bread
My favorite is the jalapeno dip they make.
I love to get the paraben and sulfate free shampoo and body wash for my kiddos.
Earth best brands for my daughter!
Fresh produce!
the fresh made peanut and almond butter!!! sooo yummy!!!!
Shopping at Whole Foods is a real treat for us since we have to travel about 30-40 minutes to the nearest store but I LOVE the fresh Almond Butter! (and everything else! We find something new each time we visit but…the fresh organic veggies are amazing!)
My favorite food at WF is zamarono mitica cheese. A divine sheep cheese!
I love the organic produce!
I like the freshly ground almond butter
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